Fable: The Grasshopper and the Ants

About this teaching resource

Expand your students’ range of reading by immersing them in Aesop's fables.

Ready to print and copy for classroom libraries, enlarge to A3 to make a class Fable Big Book, provide A4 copies for students to read, illustrate and own.

The rich literary language, sentence structure, use of phrases and terms provide exciting language, thinking and learning opportunities. Dig deep and explore the language, explore punctuation, explore Aesop, explore the messages, explore another time, and another world.

For your interest, the year level reading age (based on Flesch Kincaid scale) for these versions of Aesop’s fables are listed below.

• The Boasting Traveller 4.6
• The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf 4.9
• The Fox and the Goat 5
• Mercury and the Sculptor 5.1
• The Grasshopper and the Ants 5.7
• The Dog and the Wolf 6.5
• The Hare and the Tortoise 6.6
• The Frog and the Well 6.7
• The Fox and the Crow 7.2
• The Bear and the Two Travellers 7.3
• Jupiter and the Tortoise 7.8
• The Stag at the Pool 8.2
• The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs 8.2
• The Peacock and Juno 10.5
• The Dog and the Shadow 10.5
• The Olive and the Fig Tree 11.4
• The Old Woman and the Doctor 12.3
• The Oak and the Reeds 12.5
• Jupiter and the Monkey 13.1
• The Bat, the Bramble and the Seagull 13.7

It’s easy under estimate the demands that fables and other short stories can place upon the reader. This is why fables are an incredible tool for strengthening older students’ reading strategies, enabling them to tackle the deep learning that comes from thinking about and working with text.

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